Saint Michael of Klopsk

Also known as

• Michael of Clopas
• Michel de Klops
• Michael van Klopsk
• Michael of Klops
• Mikhail of Klopsk

Memorial

• 11 January

Profile

He was a monk who suddenly showed up at the Klopsk Abbey near Novgorod, Russia and who would no speak to anyone or answer any questions. The abbot gave him a cell and Michael sometimes slept there, sometimes in the fields, some times just stayed in church reading his Bible by candle light and praying all night. He was eventually found out as a member of the royal family, a cousin of Prince Constantin Dimietrievitch of Moscow, who had given up the worldly life to become a “fool for Christ”.

Died

• 11 January 1453 of natural causes
• relics hidden in the Klopsk Abbey

Canonized

• 1547 (feast established)

Additional Information

• Abbé Stéphane Ansart
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Heiligen 3s
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Michael of Klopsk“. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 January 2013. Web. 19 May 2013. <>